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Beyond the beaches and hotels, Gambia offers little in the way of action. Bathurst, the capital, has a scattering of rickety bars, and there is a discothéque, located on a rusty hulk moored to Bathurst pier. The bars draw a splendid selection of the local layabouts, who cadge drinks off the Swedes, and there is hot competition these days for a waiter's job at one of the hotels. Only last year, it seems, a strapping Swedish gym mistress selected one of the Atlantic's diminutive waiters as a husband...
...stand. Students have warned me that the government might plant marijuana in my valise or "get" me in some other way. I treated it lightly but in the last three days the headquarters of the opposition party, National Action Party, was bombed and the editor of Por Que, a leftist journal, has been kidnapped. Also, we have been struck by the reluctance of the Mexican intellectuals and professors to speak out against the PRI. They tell us in private of their hatred of the PRI and of its corruption. Fear for their jobs prevents them from speaking in public...
...First U.S. discothèque-Le Club-opens in Manhattan...
Despite the furor over his nomination, neither Haynsworth nor his wife publicly expressed bitterness about the contest that could undermine both his reputation and his present position as chief judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mrs. Haynsworth was philosophical: "Sad, but que sera sera." Haynsworth refused to discuss the substantive issues in the controversy. But he did point out that the press had failed to report testimony in his favor given to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Quincy is the defending touch football champion and won its tenth regular season game in a row yesterday as Floyd Wilson, head of the intramural program, wached from the sideline. Gonzalez was all smiles. "Que equipo! Que partido! Estoy muy contento." he said after the game, which loosely translated means "whoopie...